Strategies

Attack? Defend? Swap pieces? Tactics are the watchdogs of strategy that take advantage of short-term opportunities to trap or ambush opponents and quite possibly change the course of a game in a single move. Why should players only hope that opponents will blunder when International Grandmaster Yasser Seirawan can show them how to put the tactics of the world's chess legends to work. Choose from the double attack, the pin, the skewer, deflection, the décor, x-rays, windmills, and many more time-tested tactics.

Do you instinctively know what to do in every type of chess position or are you often uncertain about how to proceed? Wouldn’t it be really useful to know all the best chess strategies, and to recognize when they should be used?